the most successful novelty reached third place and Street Fighter 6 burst into the top ten

The co-op horror The Outlast Trials tops the Steam sales chart for the second week in a row, with sales already exceeded 500 thousand copies. The Steam Deck portable PC is behind by one line, and the novelty came in third.

Street Fighter 6. Image Source: Steam

The most successful debut of the past week was shown by the retro shooter Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun from Auroch Digital and Focus Entertainment, which was released on May 23. Media reviews were mixed, but Steam users were delighted with the game: a rating based on 4.5 thousand reviews – 94%. Still, the online numbers remain modest: at the start, the number of simultaneous players reached 7561 and the peak in the last 24 hours was 3997.

Other notable chart changes for the week:

• the recent open “beta” (ending May 22) and the upcoming premiere (June 2) helped Street Fighter 6 move from 23rd to seventh place;
• another fighting game, Mortal Kombat 11, which returned to the map after a long absence thanks to a 90% discount, climbed from 11th to ninth position;
• The discounts also improved the rankings of the Total War: Warhammer III, Total War: Warhammer II, and Total War: Warhammer strategies (down 30%, 66%, and 75%, respectively, through the evening of June 1). The first is now the 11th, the second is the 30th, and the third is the 56th;
• moreover, against the background of a 20% discount, the tactical shooter Ready or Not rose from 66th to 13th place;
• thanks to deep discounts, the shooter DOOM Eternal (14th line), the RPG Solasta: Crown of the Magister (15th), which received the Palace of Ice expansion, returned to the card (70% discount on the main game is valid until the evening from June 1), and adventure action Horizon Zero Dawn (16);
• city-building simulator Cities: Skylines added ten positions after the release of the latest DLC – Hotel & Retreats mini-add-ons, three Content Creator packs and two radio stations (this is where active support for the game ends);

• the second-best new release (excluding the Destiny 2 season of the Depth Silver bundle at No. 27) was Railway Empire 2 from Gaming Minds Studios and Kalypso Media, which debuted at No. 37 to “mixed” reviews. over 359, the share positive – 64%) and a personal online record of 3104 users;

• the graphic novel Fetish Locator Week Three (41st), the tactical adventure Miasma Chronicles (45th), the role-playing game Above Snakes, where the user survives in the Wild West world they created (49th), the cooperative platformer Bread & Fred (52nd), social multiplayer game Town of Salem 2 (64th), and colorful adventure Planet of Lana (76th). The highest rated were Bread & Fred (90% based on 198 reviews) and Planet of Lana (93% based on 606 reviews).

Top 10 by sales for the period from May 23 to May 30 (in brackets – the position in the previous week, if the product was on the chart):

1. The Outlast Trials (1);
2. Steam Deck (3);
3. Warhammer 40,000: Bolt gun
4. Starship Troopers: Destruction (2);
5. FIFA 23 (4);
6. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (5);
7. Street Fighter 6 (23);
8. NBA 2K23 (9);
9. Mortal Kombat 11(11);
10. Cities: Skylines (20).

Top 10 by revenue, including shareware games:

1. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Shareware);
2. Lot 2 (shareware);
3. The Outlast Trials;
4. steam deck;
5. PUBG: battlefields (shareware);
6. Warhammer 40,000: Bolt gun
7. Apex Legends (shareware);
8. Starship Troopers: extermination;
9. FIFA23;
10. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.